Washakie

Washakie (1806-20 February 1900) was a Shoshone chief during the American Indian Wars, siding with the United States against the Sioux.

Biography
Washakie was born in 1806, the son of a Shoshone medicine man. His first tribal name was "Smells of Sugar", and he became a medicine man after his father was killed by the Piegan Blackfeet. He participated in the fur trade with the United States, and in 1863 and 1868 he signed land treaties with the United States at Fort Bridger, agreeing to have a Shoshone country in Utah. Washakie befriended the whites, and he was friendly with Mormons, formally converting in 1880 after the Mormon wars with the Ute tribe ended. 86 of his warriors would help the US Army at the Battle of the Rosebud on 17 June 1876 during the Indian Wars, and he would help the whites in building boarding schools and translating the Bible into Shoshone and Arapaho. Washakie died in 1900.